Site Selection Criteria Survey Results

General View of Project

Place of Residence	Favor	Percent	Oppose	Percent	No. Opinion or Neutral	Percent
Pinellas Co.	74	65	35	31	5	4
Pasco Co.	55	59	31	33	8	9
No Address Given	40	62	23	35	2	3
Total	169	62	89	33	15	5

Benefits

What benefits do you see the plant bringing to your community?

Response	No. of Times Mentioned	Percent
Water Supply/Reduced Dependence on Groundwater	155	55
None	62	22
Jobs/Economic Benefits	34	12
Good drinking water quality	32	11
Education	1	0
Total Responses	284	100

Concerns

What concerns do you have about having the plant in your area?

Response	No. of Times Mentioned	Percent
Effect on marine environment	94	25
None	57	15
Appearance/odor/noise	41	11
Cost of water	33	9
Pollution	32	9
Traffic	23	6
Effect on sponging and fishing industry	17	4
Proximity to Stauffer site	17	4
Effect on property values	13	3
Effect on wildlife	11	3
Effect on tourism	10	3
Effect on recreation	8	2
Deep injection effect on aquifer	6	2
security	5	1
Existing water quality in Anclote River	4	1
Power Shortage	2	1
Other *	5	1
Total Responses	378	100

    * Other

• That the effluents from the water plant and power plant do not injure the community
• That it won’t be large enough to allow us to continue to grow
• Possible Accidents
• What happens to the golf course
• No contact whatsoever with humans – dumping area, etc. should be away from humans

Criteria Ranking

If you were to rank the following factors when deciding where to build the plant, what order would you put them in? Please rank the following with #1 being the most important.

Criterion	No. of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place rankings	No. of 8th, 9th, 10th, place rankings
Cost of plant and cost of water	136	31
Drinking water quality	131	39
Effect on fishing	104	25
Disturbance to seagrass	94	48
Odor from plant	79	44
Disturbance to sponging	53	67
Noise from plant operations	50	48
Appearance of plant	41	87
Effect on recreation and tourism	34	69
Traffic/safety	33	103

Special Qualities of Community

What are some of the special qualities of your community that should be considered when deciding where a seawater desalination plant should be developed?

Response	No. of Times Mentioned	Percent
Marine resources-sponging,fishing, seagrass beds	34	19
Residential neighborhoods, homes	31	17
Parks, recreation, boating and fishing	27	15
Tourist area, culturally unique, quaint (Tarpon Springs)	23	13
Availability of Anclote power plant	18	10
Beautiful coastline/waterfront community (Tarpon Springs)	14	8
Non-industrial character/appearance	8	4
Available space/not crowded/not built out	8	4
Small, quite, family oriented	8	4
Traffic congestion	7	4
Close to source of water/close to users	4	2
Other *	1	0
Total Responses	183	100

    * Other

• Not being dependent upon a single entity to generate tax dollars